From Rayelan, Publisher of Rumor Mill News
FRANCE IS NOW A DICTATORSHIP
SPIRITUAL PEOPLE FACE PRISON
The following article is about the repression of New Age and Spiritual people in France. If you think this has NOTHING to do with you because you are a Christian or a Jew or an atheist... just wait!
The repression has to start somewhere. The New Age community is a good place to start because the majority of the people think New Age people are crazy, heretics, devil worshippers or satanists! When the vegetarian, incense burner get carted off to jail, who is going to complain. After all, YOU'RE not a vegetarian or one of the crazies who burns incense to chase out negativity!
In Germany they came for the trade unionists, but most people didn't care because they weren't part of a trade union. Then they came for the communists. Again, most people turned away because they weren't communists. Then they came for the poets, the drug users, the activists, the musicians, the artists and the homosexuals; but the rest of the people turned away and ignored it because they despised the degeneracy of this group. When the Germans came for the Jews and the Gypsies and the priests who refused to fall in line, there was NO ONE who DARED to CARE!! Because if they CARED, they would end up in the box car with all the rest who were bound for extermination.
France is the "flagship" of the New World Order. If WE, the people of the WORLD, allow this injustice to continue in FRANCE, then which country will be next? Germany? England? Australia? Canada? the United States? If we do NOT learn from the lessons of WWII, then we will REPEAT them on a WORLD WIDE LEVEL!!
This is IMPORTANT. Send it far and wide!
France is now a dictatorship, spiritual people risk prison
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: [Lightnetwork] France is now a dictatorship, spiritual people risk prison
Dear list members,
The repression in France against New Age, alternative and holistic people
(including natural medicine, oriental medicine, herbs and homeopathy)
started in 1995. Since then with a system of denunciation similar to the one
used during Nazi occupation of France in WWII, thousands of French people
have been investigated, and their files are "ready" in police and justice
structures. French citizens were asked by police to denounce their neighbours
and members of their own family if they would find "subversive activities"
such as :
* making new friends
* receiving many phone calls
* going to meetings
* reading a lot of books
* burning incense at home * meditate at home
* changing eating habits = becoming vegetarians
* stop watching TV...
A law was necessary to prosecute all these people dangerous to society and
considered as the "new heretics". The bill has been in the progress for some
time and has now become a full enforcing LAW. See below.
Now the French people displaying the behavior and "subversive activites"
listed above will face 3 years emprisonment and very heavy fines, as well as
their groups dissolved as "criminal activities".
Again if you think that this will never happen in other countries including
in the "land of the free", well think again. We are not in Disneyland
anymore.....The days ahead will see how many "patriots" are left in the
"home of the brave"......
The "free Press" has been eliminated in France. In the USA, no more that 8
trusts/corporations own all media today from radio/TV channels to magazines
and newspapers, the same multinational trusts own also oil companies,
chemical companies, laboratories, everything, worldwide....
It is confirmed that the infamous law of "exception" has been passed in France on May
30th by the French Chamber. The only resort now is a claim to the "Conseil
Constitutionnel" (Constitution Council) that would prove that the law is
non-constitutional, and a claim to the European humans rights organizations.
Procedure rarely suceedeed in the past.... The About/Picard bill is now a
FRENCH LAW. France has now become officially a dictatorship, censuring its
citizens and controling their lives and beliefs. Since it is now a LAW it
could be used - and will be - to prosecute the 172 spiritual groups listed
on the
black list of the Chamber, and the many thousands of French people that have
been investigated since the beginning of the repression in 1995 against
spiritual, free-thinking, alternative and holistic people.
Note : Native American speakers such as Wallace Black Elk (one of the
pioneers of the american indian movment) are foreseeing since about two
years now in their public speeches that the same dictatorship will happen to
America......(video available at : cptnlyur@wnclink.com)
So what is happening in France may simply be a test for Europe
and the world, since the "rulers of the planet" are not limited to one
particular country.
The new petition could also be send by email to the CAP coordination in France :
coordiap@libertysurf.fr
It is also attached here as WORD document for publication purposes (printed
and on the Web)
Internet list in english of support for France :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomForFrance
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A PETITION AGAINST THE ABOUT/PICARD LAW
The Coordination of Associations and People for Freedom of Conscience (CAP)
is an association that was formed after the first hearing of victims of
religious discrimination in France. It is open to people of all religions
who have in common a deep attachment to freedom of religion and freedom of
conscience.
CAP has put on the Net the text of a petition to be signed by all those who
oppose this law originated by French senator Nicolas About and French MP
Catherine Picard. The petition can be found at the following address :
www.petitiononline.com/CAP01/petition.html
Since its start, the petition has collected over 8000 signatures from
various people. Numerous ages, jobs and countries are represented : France,
Germany, Great Britain, the United States but also Mexico, Australia,
Hungary, Russia, etc.. CAP has received by E-mail numerous encouraging
messages. Some have even sent prayers and poems ! Various associations relay
the message amongst their members. The mobilization against the law starts
to grow.
CAP will soon file the petition with its list of signatures to the main
international bodies protecting human rights.
For all those who do not have access to Internet, here is the text of the
petition :
On June 22nd, 2000, the French parliament voted a new bill against « cults »
proposed by senator Nicolas About and parliament member Catherine Picard.
The final vote by the French parliament took place on may 30th 2001 in spite
of strong reservations by mainstream religions.
The law :
- gives for the first time the legal definition of a « cult », in
contradiction with the French law of separation between religions and State
and the French Constitution which guarantee religious neutrality from the
State.
- creates a crime of « mental manipulation », punished by a 3 year jail
indictment and a fine of 300 000 FRF. The law punishes the « fraudulent
abuse of a person in a state of psychological or physical subjection
resulting from the exercise of serious or repeated pressures or techniques
meant to alter one's judgment ». As there are no objective criteria in this
definition, it will open the door to all kinds of abusive interpretations.
The same act, a spiritual guidance or the practice of a confession will be
considered as normal if done within a mainstream religion or considered as
criminal if done within a group labeled as « cult ». It is the first time
that a democracy creates such a crime. Its formulation is very close to the
crime of « plagio » (creating a state of suggestion) created in fascist Italy
by Mussolini to repress communist propaganda. The crime of « plagio » had
been later removed from the penal code by the Italian constitutional court
after it had been applied to catholic priests and homosexuals.
- modifies the French penal code by authorizing the judges to punish legal
entities such as associations for a wide variety of minor offenses, whereas
this possibility was formerly reserved to serious offenses; for instance,
forgetting to put a fire extinguisher in a precinct that belongs to an
association will give a judge the possibility to condemn the association
itself.
- creates a new accelerated procedure to facilitate the dissolution of
groups labeled as « cults » which does not guarantee enough the rights of
the defense, whereas dissolution is an extreme punishment, the equivalent of
the death penalty for physical persons.
- gives, in order to facilitate the dissolution of groups labeled as 'cults'
, a new definition of a group considered as a legal entity, in contradiction
with the judicial principle that only those who commit an illegal act should
be punished ; thus, associations which are legally separate could be
dissolved in the same procedure as long as they pursue similar objectives.
Two minor offenses will be enough to make the dissolution possible, a fact
that greatly endangers freedom of association.
- limits the promotional activities of groups labeled as 'cults' and gives
mayors the possibility to refuse a building permit to those groups as long
as they have been condemned twice, even for minor offenses.
With that law, the new religions, minority religions, groups promoting
personal development, easily labeled as 'cults' in France, a very arbitrary
label as everyone knows, are condemned to barely survive with a permanent
menace over their heads. It will suffice that one of their leaders or the
group itself be condemned twice for a minor offense after a quick trial for
the group to be disbanded with an interdiction to form itself back. If such
a law was applied to members of the French parliament, the parliament would
be immediately dissolved as many of its members have been condemned by
justice ! There is indeed a real danger that the law be applied to
mainstream religions or to any non conformist spiritual group.
If the About/Picard bill makes it into law, France will be ranked among the
worst dictatorships, THOSE WHICH ENDEAVOR, FOR THE SAKE OF THE STATE OR OF
GENERAL INTEREST, TO PERVADE INDIVIDUAL CONSCIENCE.
I think that the French penal code is sufficient to repress offenses and
crimes committed within a group, whatever the label given to that group, for
law must be the same for everyone, and I demand that this law proposal be
rejected, considering the fundamental liberties that it threatens.
If you do not have access to Internet, CAP can sign the petition for you. In
that case, please indicate your name and nationality.And send to :
coordiap@libertysurf.fr
Name Nationality Signature :
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